SOUTH PORTLAND – Lyric Music Theater, embarking on the second weekend of its production of “White Christmas,” will offer a sensory-friendly performance on Saturday, Dec. 15. The Robbie Foundation sponsors the performance, a Maine-based charity that helps provide adaptive equipment to special needs children. The organization works with children from birth to age 20, and […]

SOUTH PORTLAND — Incoming Mayor Claude Morgan asked residents to make 2019 the “Year of the Senior Citizen in South Portland” during his inaugural address Monday. The annual event featured the inauguration of newly elected City Council and Board of Education members. Councilors April Caricchio and Misha Pride and school board members Richard Matthews, Matthew […]

Community News The South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Rotary Club received its second truckload of Christmas trees and wreaths Saturday, Dec. 1and will continue to sell them at Mill Creek Park in South Portland. The club has ordered more than 2,200 balsam trees and almost 500 wreaths this year from G&S Nursies in Bangor. This is the […]

A special election to fill the vacated District 5 seat on the South Portland City Council will be held Tuesday, Dec. 11. Polls will be open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. at South Portland Community Center, 21 Nelson Road. Surveys from the two candidates vying for the seat appear below in alphabetical order. Name: Deqa Dhalac […]

TEDxYouth@CEHS is returning Friday, Dec. 7. The biennial event launched at Cape Elizabeth High School in 2012 features inspirational speakers, and is reserved for seniors and juniors as well as invited guests. “This is something for juniors and seniors, something to look forward to in their (high school) experience,” Principal Jeff Shedd told members of the […]

The Cape Elizabeth High School campus, not just the buildings, but the football field, tennis courts and every other venue on school grounds, are nicotine free and the Cape Elizabeth School Board plans to extend signs that says so. Proposed updates to the board’s policy on “Use of Tobacco Products and Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems” […]

Kathy Duca, manager of the Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage real estate office located at 285 Ocean House Road in Cape Elizabeth, announced that Kathleen Pierce was recognized for outstanding achievement and named Broker of the Month in October for superior sales. As a long time resident of Cape Elizabeth, Pierce is an active member of […]

Conroy-Tully Walker in South Portland has launched program to ensure American flags are properly disposed of and that veterans are honored for their service. The funeral home, which has locations in Portland and South Portland, will accept donations of worn and weathered flags from any member of the public who wants to have them properly […]

BIDDEFORD — Most college freshmen athletes don’t see much action in their first season at the next level, but there are always exceptions to that rule. South Portland native Abby Cavallaro has earned a chance to play right away at the college level as she opened her University of New England basketball career Monday, Nov. […]